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So basically Norway had around 59,674 babies a year while India had 23,504,865 babies a year
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Well not much, traditional medicines can do have a part in saving lives and stuff but it's a too tiny factor.
Now to answer why India and China have so many people in long term population dynamics, first thing to note is that both are very ancient civilizations very well established since a long time(when Europe barely existed), also both of these civilisations have developed around big and major river systems which makes the ground very very fertile and hence it makes feeding a large population more feasible and easier.
@mur2501 @thor Civilization and philosophy are points I want to add, but there are other very old civilizations, that didn’t survive. In a way, we could see Europe as a whole civilization, coming mainly from Greek and then Roman cultures. The climate of Europe is one of the more auspicious area on earth, with green forest, not too hot, and not too cold for it’s north position, thanks to gulf stream, where river are abundant everywhere, so even no need of canals. So people didn’t have the need to develop technologies as needed in certain parts of Indian/Chinese civilizations. In othe side it looks like several big desert was in part created by first agriculture techniques from first civilisations. (I think to desert in North of China, Mesopotamia, or Egypt for example. In scotland, the usage of wood by human, made forest disappears. Most of France was forest 2000 years ago, and now, most are farmlands. This is called by french, of Europe)
Most of the oldest known home made constructions on earth (Termites also made some very old constructions still in usage), are in western France and British islands, but that was not the same civilization as European one as far I know. I believe, I am not, sure, that, most of traditional medicine knowledge disappear due to wich hunt by Christianity. I would like to research of historians. I just know that around 18th selling medicinal plants become monopole of “Apothecary” with the book Pharmacopée Universelle (1749). But it looks this knowledge was already very low (less than 200 plants. No roots, no mushrooms, but instead lot of minerals and already advanced chemistry). Probably that the of paper long time ago, and book printing in China helped a lot. In Europe, Egyptian papyrus mostly disappear with Western part of Roman empire, and lambs skin was the only writing material, making it very expensive and so uncommon. This enden (large around the time of Gutenberg, when Chinese paper and printing come to Europe (probably with Mongolic (and Turkic) empires). And mathematics and medicine knowledge come back in Europe by Arabians via Al-Andalus.